St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-11-05

he would, sent word: mo, l will not
come. Let the boy win his spurs, for, If
God will, l desire that this day be
his with all its honors." Young man,
fight your own battle all through, and
you shall have the victory. Oh, it is a
battle worth fighting. Two monarchs of
old fought duel, Charles V and Francis,
and the stakes were kingdoms, Milan
and Burgundy You fight with sin, and
the stake is Heaven or hell.
Do not get the fatal idea that you are
a genius, and that therefore there is no
need of close application. 1t is here
where multitudes fail. The great curse
of this age is the geniuses, men with
enormous self-conceit and egotism, and
nothing else. l had rather be an OK than
an eagle; plain, and Flooding and use
full, rather than high-fying and good for
nothing but to pick out the eyes of car
cases. Extraordinary capacity without
use is extraordinary failure. There is no
hope for that person who begins life
resolved to live by his wits, for the
probability is he has not any. 1t was not
safe for Adam, even in his unfallen state,
to have nothing to do, and therefore God
commanded him to be farmer and horti
culturist. He was to dress the garden and
keep it, and had he and his wife Obeyed
the divine injunction and been at work,
they would not have been sauntering un-
der the trees and hungering after that
| fruit which destroyed them and their pos
terity; proof positive for all ages to come
that those who do not attend to their bus
mess are sure to get into mischief | do
not know that the prodigal in Scripture
would ever have been reclaimed had he
| Ia hoI, TO
feeding swine for a living. go to the
be wise which having no overseer orguide
| provideth her food in the summer and
gathereth her meat in the harvest" The
who is busy with the pen, and the book,
hammer He is afraid of those weapons.
lion meets with his hands in his pockets.
Do not demand that your toll always be
elegant, and clearly and refined. There
is a certain amount of drudgery through
which we must all pass, whatever be our
sentenced, certain number to years of
prison, and after they have suffered
and worked out the time, then they
it is with all of us. God passed on US
the sentence: by the sweat of thy brow
shalt thou eat bread" We must endure
our time of drudgery, and then, after a
while, we will be allowed to go into
comparative liberty. We must be will
ing to endure the sentence. We all
know what drudgery is connected with
the beginning of any trade or profession,
but this does not continue all our lives,
if it be the students or the merchants,
or the mechanics life. know you have
at the beginning many hard time,
but after while these things will
become easy. You will be your
own master. Gods sentence will
be satisfied. You will be discharged
from prison. Bless God that you have a
brain to think, and hands to work, and
feet to walk with, for in your constant
activity, 0 young man, is one of your
strongest defenses. Put your trust in
God and do your level best. That child
had it right when the horses ran away
with the load of wood and he sat upon
it. When asked if he was frightened, he
said: mo, prayed to God and hung on
like beaver"
Again, profound respect for the Sab
bath will be to the young man power
full preservative against evil. God has
thrust into the toll and fatigue of life a
recreative day, when the soul is especi-
ally to be fed. 1t is no new-fangled no.
ton of wildbrained reformer, but an
institution established at the be-
ginning. God has made natural |
and moral laws so harmonious
that the body as well as the soul
demands this institution. Our bodies
are seven-day clocks, that must be wound |
up as often as that, or they will run
down. Failure must come sooner or
later to the man who breaks the Sabbath. |
Inspiration has called it the Lords Day,
and he who devotes it to the world is |
guilty of robbery. God will not let the |
sin go unpuniehed either in this world or
the world to come. This is the state
ment of man who had broken this d.
vine enactment:
Il was engaged in manufacturing on
the Lehigh river. On the Sabbath I
used to rest, but never regarded God in
it. One beautiful Sabbath, when the
noise was all hushed, and the day was all
that loveliness could make it, sat down
on my piazza, and went to work invent
ing new shuttle. l neither stopped to
eat nor drink till the sun went down.
By that time l had the invention COM
pleted. The next morning l exhibited
it, boosted of my days work, and was
applauded. The shuttle was tried and
worked well, but that Sabbath days
work cost me thirty thousand dollars
We branched out and enlarged, and the
curse of Heaven was upon me from that
day onward"
While the divine frown must rest
upon him who .tramples upon this
statute, Gods special favor will be upon
that young man who scrupulously OBJ
serves it. This day, properly observed,
will throw hallowed influence over all
the week. The song, and sermon, and
sanctuary will hold back from presump-
tuous scenes. That young man who be-
gins the duties of life with either secret
Or open disrespect of the holy day, I
venture to prophesy, will meet with
no prominent successes. Gods curse
will fall upon his ship, his store, his
office, his studio, his body, and his soul.
The way of the wicked He turneth up
side down. In one of the old fables it
was said that wonderful child was
born in Bagdad, and a magician could
hear his footsteps six thousand miles
away. But l can hear in the footsteps
0f that v0unr NOR, m h;c wow $o ho |